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Arielle Bennett

@arielleb.bsky.social
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Open research communities enthusiast, The Turing Way contributor, SSI 2025 Fellow, OLS mentor, CSCCE 2019 Fellow, currently senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute.

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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's my favourite time of year back again! 🎉🎉🎉 Turing Way Book Dash is a collective, collaborative hackathon covering the additions, revisions, collisions, and joy that go into maintaining the project. No prior experience necessary, just enthusiasm and curiosity ✨
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Lovely to share a snapshot of my @softwaresaved.bsky.social fellowship work at #IRSC26 today exploring open source contributions and culture in academia through a 130 person survey (already OSS-engaged) and an #RSECon25 workshop (mostly RSEs/adjacent)
Blue and yellow slide with black text on a white background "Notes from the road: exploring open source culture in academia" Arielle Bennett https://zenodo.org/records/22599367
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🚨 BIDS is hiring! With support from Eric and Wendy Schmidt, @lightconeresearch.bsky.social is hiring 3 roles, one in Paris at Centre AISSAI du CNRS @cnrs.fr and 2 here at BIDS, part of @berkeleycdss.bsky.social . Find out more, incl how to apply: www.lightconeresearch.org/careers #AgenticAI
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Careers — Lightcone Research
Join Lightcone Research and build the open-source infrastructure that makes AI-assisted science rigorous by construction. Roles in Berkeley and Paris.
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
today I have discovered that if you copy and paste from one Word document to another, your footnote formatting will not translate over.
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Stick Man's Computer Rage Meme
ALT: Stick Man's Computer Rage Meme
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
all I want from technology today is a program that can manage footnotes in word documents.
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I've been awake for approximately an hour and we're already onto the third rendition of "Southgate you're the one" in this household
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The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
📣 The Turing Way’s June Community Forum! Our second Community Forum of 2026 is taking place on: 🗓 25th June 2026 ⏰ 5:00 PM (UK), 6:00 PM (Central Europe), 12:00 PM (Eastern US), 9:00 AM (Western US) This session brings together our community to share updates and connect about our ongoing work.
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The Turing Way Community Forum - June 2026
Date: 25 June 2026 - 5pm UK/6pm Central Europe/12pm Eastern US/9am Western US Community Forums bring together members of The Turing Way community - including people who have not yet contributed to…
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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?
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The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🎉📖 Applications are open for The Turing Way Book Dash: 18th & 19th May 2026! Deadline: 27th April 2026 (midnight, anywhere on Earth 🌏) The Turing Way Book Dash is a collaborative event where you'll work with others to add to and improve The Turing Way book and become a part of its community ✨
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Society of RSE @society-rse.org · 06/03/2026
The RSECon26 Call for Submissions is open! Share the tools you build and the RSE practices you are advancing. We welcome talks, workshops, and posters from all domains. Check the guidelines and submit your proposals today! Link: rsecon26.society-rse.org/calls/submis... #RSECon26
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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📣 This week at the #OSPO Knowledge Exchange on Zoom: Roadmap Workshop for #JupyterHub and Binder Share Out Learn how the JupyterHub team’s reflections can be applied in your projects with guest @arielleb.bsky.social ! events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3... #UCOSPO #OpenSource #OpenScience
Name of the event with the OSPO logo below it, as a series of graphic shapes, and a headshot of the guest.
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
❓Did you know that you can donate your own better images of AI to our library? If you make your own images and would like to help improve the transparency and inclusivity of AI media, the Better Images of AI Submission Handbook makes this easier 🙌🏽 blog.betterimagesofai.org/submission-h...
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Submission Handbook for Better Images of AI - Better Images of AI Blog
To make the process of submitting images to our library easier for everyone, we've released our Submission Handbook to Better Images of AI.
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Happy New Year! If you've got FOMO from #RSEcon25 you can catch all the videos of sessions online now! Including my workshop sessions on open source in academia: youtu.be/PSRTMScz3Tg?... And one of my favourite sessions on accessibility testing for software (with geese!): youtu.be/M-5KPeUtTys?...
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From code to contributions: exploring open source culture in academia- Arielle Bennett, Markus Hauru
YouTube video by Society of Research Software Engineering
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Reviewing case study PDFs in Adobe, and it's "helpfully" given me an AI summary of the file contents. INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL FILE NAME WHICH HELPS ME DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE SEPARATE FILES.
A tab selection of four files which all read "Business applications of Artificial Intelligence". Helpful.
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Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🚨NEW INQUIRY! Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
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The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
You will be visited by three spirits.
Mr Humphries, Captain Peacock, Mrs Slocombe
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Cloudflare is just one guy holding two cables together. The entire internet runs through them. He is being electrocuted 24/7 but holds on because he knows people need the world wide web. When he passes out from pain & exhaustion we get 404 errors
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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
◾ The first DisCouRSE Focus Group on Team Culture and Leadership in dRTP contexts will be held on Monday, 19 January at King’s College London. The session will explore how leadership can influence a healthy team culture in a dRTP context. Find out more: www.software.ac.uk/news/discour...
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
🗼 Last Community Forum of the year happening on the 10th December! Join us for a great celebration of the year and check our plans for 2026!! Whether you're an experienced contributor or just curious about our project... register and get your invite!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: TTW Community Forum December 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Community Forums bring together members of The Turing Way community - including people who have not yet contributed to the project. Modelled off a political town hall event, these online sessions are...
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 28/11/2025
Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Submit a Claim
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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
So much activity at #JupyterCon 2025 -> tutorials 🧠, meetups 🤝, talks 🎤! Thankfully, Silas Santini captured some highlights and shared some valuable resources! Read "Themes of Day 1, JupyterCon 2025: Collaboration and Modularity" for details: bids.berkeley.edu/news/themes-...
group of about 50 people pose for the camera in a large room, with the JupyterCon logo on the side of the photo
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Me when the PR I haven't previewed gets merged and works first time
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a dog wearing glasses sits at a computer keyboard
Alt: a dog wearing glasses sits at a computer keyboard typing lines of code
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We now have multiple visualizations of this phenomenon from various news organizations. Which one is the best?
New York Times graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships. WSJ graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships. FT graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships. Bloomberg graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships.
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Last year @turingway.bsky.social took part in an ethnographic study on hybrid hackathons and the paper is finally out for folks to read! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... (see if you can guess which one we are 😁)
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
As if I didn't have enough to do this week, outlook has changed the location of the flag & delete buttons - such a small change but so rage inducing and jarring every, single. time.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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Michael Donnay @mjdonnay.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A great opportunity for people working on career pathways and leadership for digital research professionals. Perhaps something for @ukiedh.bsky.social or @turingway.bsky.social to explore? discourse-network.github.io/funding/roun...
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DisCouRSE Flexible Fund - Round 1
DisCouRSE is a UKRI-funded Network+ project that will encourage and support the development of leaders across all digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles, resulting in an empowered and co...
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Slides from my #RSECon25 workshop "From Code to Contributions: Exploring Open Source in Academia" are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1709... Excited to share the write up once I've digested all the miro board notes and HackMD contributions - thanks to everyone who participated!
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From Open Code to Open Contributions: Exploring Open Source Culture in Academia
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a code repository with an open source license must be in want of an extra maintainer." - Jane Austen, probably. While academic researchers and research tec...
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
kicking off day 2 of #RSECon25 with a fantastic keynote on the power of recognition - if you've ever needed three different metaphors for the difference in scale between publications and software submissions to REF, this talk is for you! slides.com/simonhettric...
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RSE Con 25
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Jost Migenda @jostmigenda.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025
“I built my entire career by putting blindingly obvious things on slides.” —Simon Hettrick #RSECon25
Photo of the keynote speaker. Slide in the background says: “If we don't recognise everyone who is vital to research, we limit our ability to conduct research.”
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Simon Li @penguinoops.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
FRIDGE, SATRE and AIRR at #RSEcon25 #TrustedResearchEnvironments
FRIDGE, A ready-to-use SATRE compliant TRE that can be deployed to AIRR
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Excited to kick off #RSEcon25 (my first!) with a great keynote from @amandabrock.bsky.social from @openuk.bsky.social on open source in research software, great whistle stop tour through the naunces of open source and an update on the policy work OpenUK is doing with UK gov on promoting open source
A white woman with brown hair wearing round wire glasses and red lipstick in front of a projection screen with RSECon25 9th Annual conference for Research Sofware Engineering in a lecture hallSlide in a lecture hall showing a blue and organge graphic with the title the rise of open source in research, Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
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Chris Holdgraf @choldgraf.com · 03/09/2025
A reminder that there are two Call for Proposals out from the Jupyter Foundation! 👉 Jupyter Community Workshops: blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-comm... 👉 Jupyter Community Support funding: blog.jupyter.org/your-ideas-o... Check them out and share the word!
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Jupyter Community Workshops Are Back!
The Jupyter Community Building Working Group is pleased to announce that the next call for proposals for Jupyter Community Workshops is now…
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I swear I used to be able to wake up early at the weekend and be like “oop I don’t need to be awake” and go back to sleep for a bit now it’s like “oh we’re awake, that’s it then, the day has started motherfucker” is this what getting old is
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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🧭 We are pleased to announce that applications for the SSI Fellowship Programme 2026 will be open from Mon 11 Aug to Mon 6 Oct 2025. An introductory Fellowship Programme Launch Webinar will be held on Thu 21 Aug. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/fellows...
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Still time to contribut to this 👇open until 30 September to anyone working in academia Thank you to everyone who has responded so far!
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Ben Thomas @bennopt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Do you, or someone you know, work in sensitive data curation in the UK? Please have a read about this HDR UK-led, UKRI DRI-funded project on skills for sensitive data curation. Link to the survey in the article. Please share with your networks! www.hdruk.ac.uk/study-and-tr...
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Sensitive Data Curation Survey
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
✨Calling all academic coders! Share your views on open source in academia ✨ TL;DR 🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia 👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... ⏰ Approx 20 mins. 📅 Closes 30 September 🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
💬 #SSIFellow @mdsimpson.co.uk has launched a new initiative names ConveRSE. The website will serve as a hub for mental health information and support, including updates on his fellowship and collaborations with others in the community. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/blog/convers...
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The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🔥 Save the date 🔥 "Learning from Each other's Journeys: Case Studies from Open Initiatives" 📅 31 July 2025, 18 - 19:30 UTC+1 (UK time) Featuring Aleksandra Nenadic, @choldgraf.com, @yabellini.bsky.social, Yo Yehudi, & @arielleb.bsky.social Learn more: the-turing-way-fireside-chats.start.page
Hand-drawn image by scriberia is on the right of the digital poster: three people are sitting around a fire whose flames form the words “The Fireside Chat”. They are holding speech bubbles on sticks in lieu of marshmallows.
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The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🔥 Save the date 🔥 "What does Governance mean to us in Research and Open Science?" 📅 30 June 2025, 15 - 16:30 UTC+1 (UK time) Featuring @npch.bsky.social, @simonhettrick.bsky.social, @rivaquiroga.bsky.social, @oscarseip.bsky.social & @malvikasharan.bsky.social Sign-up: forms.gle/d2vuQcpoXJpD
Hand-drawn image by scriberia is on the right of the digital poster: three people are sitting around a fire whose flames form the words “The Fireside Chat”. They are holding speech bubbles on sticks in lieu of marshmallows.
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The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Co-organised by @oscarseip.bsky.social from SSI and @malvikasharan.bsky.social and @arielleb.bsky.social from The Turing Way, this series will dive deep into different aspects of governance in open science and research. See the thread below 👇
Hand-drawn image by scriberia is on the right of the digital poster: three people are sitting around a fire whose flames form the words “The Fireside Chat”. They are holding speech bubbles on sticks in lieu of marshmallows. Featuring logos of SSI and TTW, and photos/text about Oscar, Malvika, and Arielle.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
the level of personal abuse I am facing on this app is getting unbearable
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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 22/05/2025
"materialism is bad boohoo things won't make you happy" that's a trinketless mindset, those are the words of somebody who doesn't have cool stuff
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